Clayton Koelb & Eric Downing 
German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899 [PDF ebook] 

New essays providing an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in social and political context.


This volume provides an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in the period from the death of Goethe in 1832 to the publication of Freud’s
Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. Although the primary focus is on imaginative literature and its genres, there is also substantial discussion of related topics, including music-drama, philosophy, and the social sciences. Literature is considered in its cultural and socio-political context, and the German literary scene takes its place in a wider European perspective. Following the editors’ introduction, essays consider the impact of Romanticism on subsequent literary movements, the effectsof major movements and writers of non-German-speaking Europe on the development of German literature, and the impact of politics on the changing cultural scene. The second section presents overviews of the principal movements ofthe time (Junges Deutschland, Vormärz, Biedermeier, Poetic Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Impressionism), and the third section focuses on the major genres of lyric poetry, prose fiction, drama, and music-drama. The final section provides bibliographical resources in the form of a critical bibliography and a list of primary sources. Contributors to the volume are distinguished scholars of German literature, culture, and history from North America and Europe: Andrew Webber, Lilian Furst, Arne Koch, Robert Holub, Gail Finney, Ernst Grabovszki, Benjamin Bennett, Jeffrey Sammons, Thomas Pfau, Christopher Morris, John Pizer, Thomas Spencer.


Clayton Koelb is Guy B. Johnson Distinguished Professor of German at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Eric Downing is Associate Professor of German at the same institution.

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Introduction – and Eric Downing

The Afterlife of Romanticism – Andrew J. Webber

Parallels and Disparities: German Literature in the Context

of European Culture – Lilian R. Furst

Revolution and Reaction: The Political Context

of Central European Literature – Arne Koch

Literary Controversy: Naming and Framing the

Post-Romantic, Pre-Realist Period – Robert C. Holub

Poetic Realisim, Naturalism, and the Rise

of the Novella: 1850-1889 – Gail Finney

Literary Currents of the 1890s: Symbolism, Impressionism,

and Turn-of-the-Century Austria – Ernst Grabovszki

The Absence of Drama in Nineteenth-Century Germany – Benjamin K. Bennett

The Nineteenth-Century German Novel – Jeffery L. Sammons

Lyric Poetry – Thomas Pfau

Richard Wagner: Opera and Music Drama – Christopher Morris

Navigating the Nineteenth Century: A Critical Bibliography – John Pizer

List of Primary Sources – Thomas Spencer

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JEFFREY L. SAMMONS is Professor Emeritus, Yale University